80,000 pounds of free potatoes up for grabs in Calgary this weekend A Calgary community group is preparing to give away 80,000 pounds of free potatoes this weekend.

Samwise Gamgee: Mr. Frodo, let's fucking go

happy Earth Day

man I wish a state would implement proportional representation in their statehouse and show that theres nothing to be afraid of.

You guys. A goose is nesting under the Spoon Bridge and Cherry. This is our Romulus and Remus moment. We already became ungovernable. Now we become myth. #Minneapolis.

What Species Are San Francisco’s Parrots? It’s Complicated. A new genomic study suggests they’re their own thing. That’s probably thanks to one bold bird.

Researchers demur on what exact species SF's parrots are: “Tell me what you define as a species."

Fab story by Jess Silber-Byrne on @baynature.org featuring an Angry Conure who helped science. 🧪

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Always nice to see a tortoise.

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

you’ll be the first to ever fill up the punch card for a free 12’ of sandwich.

Yakovlev Yak-55 - Wikipedia

According to Wikipedia the two planes are separately owned but surely thats not correct(?) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovle...

Anchorage School District begins layoffs after tax levy failure According to the district, 56 teachers and 24 other district employees will be laid off.

The Anchorage School District began the process of laying off dozens of employees Friday, and notified hundreds of others that they will be moved to different positions or schools next year.

Yes and I see the contradiction but they are just describing a target, not saying how to get there. I see it yet another example of “life is easier with more money.”

IMO it’s reasinable to say that if you have less income then you would need larger savings to hit the same target. They don’t seem to be saying this is what people actually have.

Hence why I spent a good 45 minutes of my day yesterday making an NFL memes style graphic for Jonathan. Worth every second.

Ladies and gentlemen, we got ‘im.

I got one for 41 cents from FedEx (less than the postage to send the letter) and it combined an all-caps THIS IS NOT AN INVOICE with instructions to visit a site that immediately asks for my invoice number.

The Tennis Shoes Wore Computer

Sacramento State-ass motto.

You love to see it.

Blessed are the fast movers, for they shall be air-to-air refueled.

Superfluous”work” courtesy of swipe-typing.

Pygmy-Owls' False Eyes | BirdNote Here's lookin' at you, kid!

Learned something pretty work wild yesterday about the back of a pygmy owl’s head:
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That race was fantastic and even though I knew Wout had made Pogacar do all the pacing for about thirty miles, I still couldn’t believe he won it.

Washington state Supreme Court removes judge for faking document to get cheap parking - The Daily Chronicle The Washington Supreme Court weighed in on a judge's forging of a document to secure cheaper parking, deciding on Thursday to remove him from the bench. David Ruzumna was working as a pro tem, …

Truly, parking deranges.

Did you go on a 2-hour digression about a hallucination in the bathroom of a french jazz club like Thomas Pynchon?

Rushing to the cinema like:

I’ve always considered Albania to be the New York City of the Balkans.

I’ve always thought September was the best month in the interior. Cool weather, no mud. Great colors.